[Snoopers-868th]

That is not what I meant. The brain thing is disgusting. The parasite thing is too if you stop to think about it. Just like dust mites in your bed. If I think about those things crawling about it makes me itch. So how many times have you been tested for tape worm? I never have. Makes me crawl thinking about it. There is more than this to eating out--the thought that someone might spit in my food is enough to keep me home.

[Frank_2001]

"the thought that someone might spit in my food"
Be nice to the waiter, tip generously, and never send anything back to the kitchen. And never ask for "well-done" filet mignon;)

[kinoxi]

I was in Texas (New Braunfels) about six months ago with a friend. We both got sick at the same time (eating out every night) while driving back through Louisiana. She and I are both fine now but someone screwed with our food at some point. I'm rather hesitant to eat out in general but since that trip I've been rather adamantly against it.

[MHGinTN]

Never go bare footed in or around a Motel, especially in the grassy areas around Motels or places where pets may have been 'walked'.

I have a nightmare story that happened to me because I went in and out of my Holiday Inn Motel room bare footed several years ago and picked up a hook worm/heart worm on my feet then slid into bed and it got on the sheet and then burrowed into my back. Because I had just finished a long course of antibiotics (uselessly, as it turned out since I had a viral cold then), the worm burrowed around under my skin without my immune system fighting back until it was on my side and I was scratching the welt like crazy. The liquid methotrexate dosage I was written by an ER Physician was way beyond correct dosage and nearly killed me. If I had not been a pharmaceutical rep and had my own copy of the PDR to consult on dosage, I might have continued taking the medicine until I was too far gone to save. As it was, I was delirious and hallucinating when I finally thought to read the PDR. Another ER physician later removed the hook worm by freezing spray and collecting it on a surgical sponge when it burrowed out to escape the cold. I then had two weeks of sickening meds to kill any possible eggs that might have been 'left behind'. Happened three decades ago but I'll bet the procedures are the same even today for such a fluke.

[therut]

Get your doctor to give you a Vermox chewable pill and see if you have dead worms in your poor just like your dog when you deworm it. I agree. Disgusting. Never saw a patient with tape worms but of coarse pin worms are everywhere. They do not kill you just makes you want to scratch you know where. Stool sample can be tested easily.

[Ignatz]

That is not what I meant. The brain thing is disgusting. The parasite thing is too if you stop to think about it.

The parasite thing....you mean K-Fed, right?